Disclaimer: don't own Fire Emblem or Yu Yu Hakusho. And because I know it's mentioned in this fan fiction somewhere, I don't own Descendents of Darkness/ Yami no Matsuei. And if I did I would have made more than 11 manga! On that happy note let us get back to the story.
New Characters of this Chapter-
Higari: Okay…you're free to call him what you want because I'm not even sure what his name really is. It can be Hij-ar-E like it looks. Hagari (Don't know if I spelled that right, I'm talking about Sniper from Yu Yu Hakusho. Or Hijiri from Descendents of Darkness/ Yami no Matsuei (I knew it was mentioned! -) Yep, I went for a classic on this one, he's a Sage (Classic lovers rejoice)
Julloch: ..have fun with this, someone wrote it in an e-mail to me and I have no idea how to say it. In fact if anyone has a clue as to say it please tell me! And I went classical again and he's a mage. (classic lovers rejoice again)
Prue: Yes, her name is Pru, with an E. Sense it's not short for anything I threw the E in there. Prue's a creation of mine. A phoenix. And like her names states, she's like Kera. But she turns into a flamed bird instead. She has power over fire and wind, along with her talons, tail and beak.
Oh and one more authors note. I wrote a few of these chapters two years ago. And my writing has gotten a lot better sense then, and I've gone over and switched a lot of these chapters. But this one is so long I'm not sure I made everything that I didn't like better. So sorry in advance for the amateur mistakes you might come across.
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Flames of War, Chapter 3.
Attack In Vandegard.
"Some roll modal you are…." Running down a hallway of Castle Vandegard was a boy with a large yellow book, the boy was about 18 and had long black hair that was pulled back with a braid and purple eyes. After a moment of scolding himself and running he tripped over an unseen force and hit the ground, and with that the book went flying to the ground also. "….Ow…"
"Are you alright lord Higari?" Said a girl sitting on the floor next to him looking confused and concerned. The girl was 12 years old and had shoulder length fire red hair along with a pair of blood red eyes. He looked at her for a moment before turning over and standing up and brushing herself off, then looking down at him.
"Yeah, the only thing really hurt is my pride….I didn't run into you did I?" He spoke, looking down at the young girl. Hoping he didn't crush her or injure her under his larger body.
The girl gave a short nod "..yes…" she spoke weakly, she was extremely quiet even towards the boy she'd known most of her life.
" I am so sorry….I'm really out of it today aren't I Prue?" Higari asked, normally he was extremely neat and tidy. Just goes to show you how over sleeping can ruin your day-to-day life.
"I wouldn't say tha-…Yes…and you should hurry up or you'll be…even more late…" She blushed and stepped back. She didn't want to insult her lord but his father was always going on about honesty.
Higari hit his hand against his head in an "I'm so stupid" manor. "Right…. thanks Prue!" And with that, the young lord was off his long raven hair flying behind him. Running somewhere, yet were it was beyond Prue at the moment.
The Sage made his way outside the castle. As soon as the bright sun was seen marking he was out of the dark old castle he called home his violet eyes began scanning the area. He soon found what he was searching for and smiled slight, running over to a small child sitting against the wall of the castle. A little gray rabbit sitting next to him calmly. As the small boy heard footsteps he turned towards the older boy and smiled back at him. Jumping from his seat and bowing towards him. A brown cloak covering almost all his figures. One thing that could be noticed was he had to be the same age as Prue, he seemed about her age and was almost identical for size. Higari nodded to show he accepted the gesture and bowed back, a shameful look in his eye. "I'm very sorry Julloch, I didn't mean to keep you waiting. It was unprofessional. I hope you forgive me." He looked at the younger boy to see his reaction. Though to his surprise the boy just unfolded his hood and looking at the Sage with enthusiastic light blue eyes. His body was much tanner than the older boys, and he had short red hair that resembled Prue's.
"It's okay Master Higari, things like this happen, you're only human remember?" Julloch looked honest enough, even if he looked up to the young lord and thought the world of him he knew that he wasn't an angel of any sort, and mistakes happened to him just like everyone else.
He looked down at the happy child," At least somebody around here likes me" He playfully smiled and looked at his student "So are you ready to get started?"
"Of coarse Master Higari!" The student replied quickly.
"I should have known….ok lets get started, follow me." He turned around walking towards the opened plains as his young student followed.
Meanwhile on the plains of Vandegard.
"I can't believe we've been walking up this mountain for two days!" Was the statement of Genma as the group of five roads up the mountain for the second day in a row.
"Yeah….but look at it this way…what if we didn't have horses?" Was Jonair's come back comment trying to make his teammate feel better.
"…or we could have wings like her." Genma points toward Mya in her harpy form flying in the light blue skies with a smirk on her face.
"It's true, she's already got there, felt bad for us, and flew back…Twice! Said the ticked off lord. Kera on the other hand couldn't care less, though was having a good laugh at their expense
"Don't worry boys, well be there in about two hours." She said smuggling looking at her older brother with amused yellow eyes.
"Did you just speak Kera!" Her brother's eyes widen, Kera never said anything unless it was absolutely necessary.
"um…yeah I did!…." Kera was amazed with herself she hadn't spoken freely since her Mother died, 8 years ago. Genma opened his mouth to say something but before he could he was interrupted by the shrill screech of the harpy.
"What's going on up their Mya?" Jonair asked looking up towards the distressed harpy knowing that screech never led to anything good. The harpy flew down towards the group re-entering her human form at touching the ground.
"He have to hurry my lord, it looks like theirs some troops heading toward castle Vanegard…" She said worriedly, her body slightly shaking from fear of the group not getting there in time.
"…With the same armor colors that attacked us?" Was Kera's comment toward her distressed guard. Mya could only give a slow nod as she looked at her princess.
"Well then come on, we can't just sit here lets go!" Jonair yelled. he was very demanding when it came to anything closely related to this.
"But Kera said it would take two more hours…" Debated Genma, glaring at the young silver haired lord as he had done many times before.
"Not if we run like bloody hell" Was Jonair's only response as he jammed his heels into the horses sides to speed him up.
"You can't talk to him when he's like this…let's go" Kera said with a look of degust before running after her brother.
"Alright." Was both Genma and Raven's response as they mimicked Jonair and followed behind.
Outside Castle Vandegard
"Thunder!" at the young Sage Higari's words a large thunderbolt struck the ground leaving a large explosion like sound and the grass beneath it burned. "Their, all you have to do is focus… theirs not that much difference between thunder and fire if you think about it…I want you to try now Julloch." After he said his words he handed the large yellow book to his student, smiling reassuringly .
"….okay…." The boy took the book and walked a few steps in front of his teacher looking back at him nervously. Mistrusting eyes looked at the Sage with fear. He didn't want to do something that at this moment seemed so difficult for him, and if he did it wrong he could be stoke with his own spell.
"Relax there's no rush to this. And I won't let you get hurt." Higari gave a reassuring smile back to him once again. Julloch slowly nodded and gave a weak smile towards him, he felt facer when Higari was next to him. Then looked down at the book.
"…Thunder…" As was expected a large thunderbolt came straight from the sky burning the grass it landed on, Julloch stared at it for a moment In shock then looked over towards his teacher "….was that…good Master Higari?" As his teacher walked over he gave him a smile and placed a hand on the young boys shoulder.
"It was great Julloch." The said Mage gave a weak smile at his teacher and for a moment there was total silence. Them the long hair of his teacher slightly moved and he looked toward the sky with nervous violet eyes. "…eclipse?…"he whispered to himself, he had been learning of magic for years and could feel the black power of dark magic growing closer. His eyes widened as he looked back at his student, he tried to warn him but before he could, the skies darkened and black razor like objects fell circling the younger boy. "Julloch watch out!" The boy was taken by surprise and had no idea what his master meant or what he wanted him to do.
Without thinking about it the lord jumped forward and pushed his student out of the way of the dark spell, not thinking or caring that this meant he would be hit. "Gaaaaa!" as the spell came in contact with his flesh he screamed, it cut threw his shoulder and blood quickly shot from his injured body as he fell to the ground. He opened his eyes slowly and looked up at his shocked student a bit of blood dripping from his mouth "you okay….Julloch?"
His speechless young friend gave a slow nod. Looking down at his teacher with widened eyes. He had never seen a spell like that one, so powerful and the sight of his teacher in such pain made him terrified. "…That's good…" he slowly forced himself off the ground, Blood dripping from his shoulders, legs, torso and hands. "Come on lets get back inside!" Higari began to walk back to the castle signaling for his student to follow.
"….L-Lord Higari are you sure you should walk?…" Julloch followed but looked at him concerned, hoping he would stop. The man looked like he was about to drop dead at any given moment.
"It's either this or wait until that thing comes back…" Higari looked at the boy again, showing no sign that he would give in to his injuries. If they didn't get back it would be much worse, if the two made it out of there alive it would be by god's dear grace.
"….No…." Higari spoke quietly, his voice shaking along with the rest of his body.
"What's the matter Master Higari?" Julloch spoke, staying as close to him as possible. Higari was possibly the only person who had ever cared about the young boy, it wouldn't be right for him not to worry about him now. He had to stay close from fear of the older passing out and bleeding to death.
"were….surrounded….theirs no way back to the castle….without being outnumbered…" Higari spoke grimly, A small look of hate growing in his eyes.
"….W-what do we do?…" Julloch asked fearfully. Looking around to notice the many arrowed soldiers from every direction. It wasn't possible to move without being shot down he thought.
"G….Get behind me Julloch….I'll protect you." He said in reply, taking his spell book and holding it next to him. The blood dripping from his hand caught a bit of his attention. But he over looked it and looked at the closest enemies.
"What!…you can't take them on like this…" He reluctantly got behind Higari, but hoped he would see the voice of reason. There was no way he could hold off so many the way blood was raining out of him.
He turned around looking at the boy. A serious yet caring look reflecting in his eyes. "Don't worry about me….just try to get out of here alive…" He sighed and glared at the soldiers, going into a defenses position. Awaiting attack.
Inside Castle Vandegard
"Lord Hatchi, I can't find lord Higari!" Said Prue flying next to her king using her blood red phoenix wings that had replaced her arms and hands.
"He's still outside with his student then…" The older man said. He had some similarities with the said Sage, he had the same black hair, but it was much shorter and showed a bit of gray. His eyes were a deep brown, along with a short beard. But he wore the same attire that his son wore. The red cape and white shirt.
"What do we do milord? We have to find him!" Prue said quickly. She knew two magic users couldn't fight off those fighters for to long.
"Hm…the only thing we can do, Prue…" He sighed grimly, giving the orders to some of the winged units. 3 Pegasus knights, 2 Falco knights, 4 wyvern riders, 2 wyvern knights and 1 wyvern Lord. They were his best units put together in times of great need. As they flew into the sky Hatchi looked back at the small girl flying over him. "Now come Prue, will search from the tower outside."
"Right away milord!" Prue spread her wings and flew off towards the roof.
"….This doesn't look good…" Said Jonair looking into the already accruing battle.
"Well let's stop looking at it and get down there!" Was Genma's reply towards his nervous lords statement. Leering at the boy's always-stupid behavior.
"Ok, lets get going!" and with Jonair's last word spoken the five entered the battle, Kera returning to her Yo-ko form and Raven becoming her werewolf form, Mya flying ahead to join the heat of battle and both boys pulling out their blades and all running toward the fray.
The battle was difficult straight from the start, most of the enemies were archers. For they were battling in the winged kingdom, Kera had her mouth full of flesh most of the time and was casting foxfire left and right, while Raven was taking the archers head on with her hellbow, and amazing weapon used only by werewolves. The archers didn't stand a chance. Genma switched between his bow and his blade for the battle slashing the enemy to pieces if it came close and shooting them if he could see them before they got that close, while Jonair seemed comfortable with his fire spell for this fight. The battle raged own for about a half hour before Jonair got word of his lost friend Higari and after he slaughtered his informer he faced the other members of their small party.
"The prince of Vandegard is missing, somewhere in this field they're tearing him apart! And I have to find him, he's an old friend on mine.
"In that case you and Kera go, someone has to focus on the actual fight." Said Genma seeming confident in their abilities. The other two followed up his statement with a nod.
"Alright thank you all, come on Kera." Deciding it would make everything go by faster he jumped on the back of said Yo-ko and the ran off towards everybody aiming for them until they found what had to be their friend, in some sort of circle were at least 15 enemies trying to attack two figures, obviously out numbered. The two ran toward the circle head on and once they were close enough Jonair jumped from his ride and cast a fire spell as young Kera jumped forward biting an enemy mercenary in the neck once the circle was clear of enemies they found what they hoped to find, their Sage friend casting divine over and over warding off enemy cavaliers and nomads. While next to him was his student using the fire spell just as often. In fear of death that would follow if he didn't.
"Higari! What happened to you!" Said his concerned silver haired friend running to his side .
"Don't worry I'll be fine…" Yet that would not be the case, Higari's cloths were soaked with crimson liquid and new cutes and gashes had been torn open from the fight. Above all else the poor Sage could hardly stay awake or even breathe. As much as he tried to hide it he kept breathing extremely hard, showing he couldn't stand it much longer. Jonair turned to Julloch looking him over as well, the boy also had a number of injuries on his body
"Are you alright?" He asked nervously, he'd heard rumors about the young Sage taking on a student but had never seen him before. Julloch just nodded, he never spoke to anyone besides his teacher. And refused to stop that now, a stranger none-the-less.
The front of Castle Vandegard
The other three members of Jonair's team stood facing their toughest enemy, this man was obviously leading the rest of this army. He was a Ranger with brown hair and eyes and had very little armor on his body with a bow in one hand and a sword in the other. Raven was the first to attack, raising her hellbow and aiming for his neck. Though as many rangers were this man was very fast and agile. He easily dashed past her attack and galloped his horse over to Genma, being human he was the easiest of the three. His sword raised in his hand he took on the Samurai, for someone who was on foot he contended very well. Mya, having one of her great ideas flew above them and let out one of her harpy cries. Scaring the horse and making him jump back, throwing the man off and to the ground. Genma took the time to stab him threw his head, and with that blood splattered onto the young mans face. He growled and whipped the crimson mess off his body. "Now that was just gross." He said clenching his fists.
Meanwhile
"I can't wait anymore, Higari most need me or he would be here by now, Prue stay here." And with that the King of Vandegard whistled to the air and out flew a silvery colored Wyvern with two legs in its back but it didn't have front legs, he jumped on top and flew off towards the direction his son should be. He soon found his child on the back of the black Yo-ko, Kera along with his young student Julloch and prince Jonair of Fenair right next to them. "Higari!" He screamed in horror.
"..F-father?…" said the weak Sage looking up to the sky with half opened eyes
"Higari what happened to you?" Said his father landing next to him.
"…E-..eclipse…" was the only word he could force out. His father just giving him a confused look.
"Somebody who knows the eclipse spell got him about an hour ago…he told me…" Said Jonair trying to be of some assistance.
"Oh…. thank you both for being here Jonair….I don't know if he could of held out much longer without you…and thank you for staying with him Julloch" While the young child just gave a nod and looked back towards his teacher for any sign of him being better, Jonair smiled and excepted it
"You're welcome…besides he'd do the same for us" Soon the group reached the inside of Castle Vandegard where they found Prue had already let the others in. "Well you all look comfortable" Said Jonair looking at his friends who were almost asleep on the sofa and the chairs.
"Yeah…we are" Said Genma setting up from his place on the sofa, grinning evilly.
"Yes, very" Said Raven turning to face them from her chair.
"Mya?" Asked Jonair looking toward his harpy friend.
"….She's asleep" Said Raven looking up at Jonair once again. Pointing to the harpy lady once again in her human form, curled in a small ball against the chair.
"Isn't that just like her" Jonair sighed as he spoke, smirking at the guard who seemed almost dead to the world.
It was a few hours later, the young Sage found himself on a large futon. The pain shooting from his body was almost gone. "…W-…what happened?" Said the young Sage finally waking up from his passing out moments after they reached the castle, all of his wounds bandaged.
"Do you feel any better now, Master Higari?" Asked his very worried student sitting on the ground next to him Without even turning towards the sound of the voice, he knew who it was and he flashed a weak smile.
"Yes, much better Julloch, how are your wounds?" He asked nervously, remembering all they went through that day. If he felt this much better the young boy must be okay.
"Their better…."The young boy said slowly. He refused to make out any sign of pain while his master was near. Higari reached his hand over toward his student and placed his hand on his head shaking it playfully.
"That's great" he said happily. Julloch couldn't help but give a short laugh and look up at him with happy eyes. Higari pulled his hand away and looked at his student sadly. "Sorry I couldn't protect you better…." His young students eyes widen in shock as he looked at him.
"How can you say that, you saved me…." He said with dis belief that he could feel bad about it.
"But I should have done it better." He gave another smile and stood up from his sofa. "Were is everybody else?" He asked, he know remembered that his friends from a whole other castle had come to his aid. The fear of their being hurt quickly flashed into his mind.
"Their in the next room." Julloch commented pointing towards the door.
"Oh, all right" Higari walked threw the door his student at his side, looking at everyone else.
"Lord Higari!" Said a very happy Prue running over to him and rapping her arms around his waste. He winced in pain for a moment at the sudden impact on his wounded body but shook it off and hugged her back.
"Nice to see you too Prue"
"Nice to see your awake Higari" Said Jonair looking up from his resting place on the floor, his sister lying across his stomach.
"Thanks Jonair….wait what are you doing here?" He asked, blinking in total confusion. He did remember the boy being there, but not why he was anywhere near Vandegard.
"Your father will fill you in later." The silver haired lord commented with a yawn.
"Oh, okay then" He said, satisfied with his answer.
"From what you've told me Jonair this is very serious, lets go discuss it on the roof." Said the King of Vandegard.
"Why the roof father?" Higari asked looking at his father confused. Everyone else following his clueless example.
"We don't know who we can trust anymore Higari…if we're up there at least no one will follow us without us knowing about it." The king said plainly.
"Good point father." Higari said smiling at his always intelligent father. Jonair and Mya nodding along with him.
As the group gathered around the roof discussing there new plan and what to do with this no-nothing group who so badly wanted war. Jonair quickly remembered his father's words. He opened his mouth to speak but quickly shut it when he noticed Lord Hatchi looking into the wooded area very seriously. Kera's fox ears pointed upwards, she knew what was going on just as Hatchi did. Suddenly The king's eyes shot towards his young son. Higari looked back at him with widened, scared eyes. He had no clue why his father was doing so. Prue, Kera, and Jonair all turned to the direction the man was focused on. Jonair gasped as he caught sight of the balstia (AN: not sure if that's spelled right or not…the arrow thing) coming right for the raven-haired Sage. Hatchi new the boy had suffered enough, and his fatherly instinct quickly forced his body to jump and push the boy into the nearby wall. As his body came in contact with the cold material of the castle he watch, horrified as his father screamed in pain and fell to the ground. A large arrow sticking from his side.
"Father! No!..no…don't leave me…" Higari dropped to his knees next to the still body. Tears brimming in his eyes as he looked down at the silent corpse in front of him.
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Okay! It took me 6 days just to fix all the problems with this chapter, and I'm still not sure it's that good. Oh well. Sorry it's so long. I think it's one of the longest ones I have. So if you're worried about having to go through all this. You don't have to do it many more times. Maybe 3. Anyway, thanks for reading and please review.